Time to Say Goodbye?:A Study on Music, Ritual and Death in the Netherlands

Publiekssamenvatting In Time to Say Goodbye? A Study on Music, Ritual and Death in the Netherlands, Janieke Bruin-Mollenhorst explores attitudes towards death in the Netherlands through the lens of music during contemporary funeral rituals. In this work she studies the interplay between music facilities, musical repertoires and funeral rituals from 1914 to present; the functions of music during contemporary funeral rituals; and the use of religious expressions in funeral music. She shows that continuing bonds play an important role in the ways people in the Netherlands nowadays deal with death... Mehr ...